Today in History
August 25
357 Julian Caesar defeats the Alamanni at Strousbourg in Gaul.
1346 Edward III of England defeats Philip VI's army at the Battle of Crecy in France.
1758 The Prussian army defeats the invading Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1765 In protest over the stamp tax, American colonists sack and burn the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson.
1830 The "Tom Thumb" steam locomotive runs its famous race with a horse-drawn car. The horse wins because the engine, which had been ahead, breaks down.
1862 Union and Confederate troops skirmish at Waterloo Bridge, Virginia, during the Second Bull Run Campaign.
1864 Confederate General A.P. Hill pushes back Union General Winfield Scott Hancock from Reams Station where his army has spent several days destroying railroad tracks.
1875 "Captain" Matthew Webb becomes the first man to swim across the English Channel.
1916 The National Park Service is established as part of the Department of the Interior.
1921 The United States, which never ratified the Versailles Treaty ending World War I, finally signs a peace treaty with Germany.
1925 A. Phillip Randolph organizes the Sleeping Car Porters' Union.
1940 The first parachute wedding ceremony is performed by Rev. Homer Tomlinson at the New York City World's Fair for Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward. The minister, bride and groom, best man, maid of honor and four musicians were all suspended from parachutes.
1941 British and Soviet forces enter Iran, opening up a route to supply the Soviet Union.
1943 The Allies complete the occupation of New Georgia.
1944 Paris is liberated from German occupation by Free French Forces under General Jacques LeClerc.
1989 NASA scientists receive stuning photographs of Neptune and its moons from Voyager 2.

Born on August 25
1913 Walt Kelly, cartoonist who created the comic strip "Pogo."
1918 Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer and pianist.
1919 George C. Wallace, governor of Alabama and presidential candidate.
1921 Brian Moore, Irish novelist (The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne).
1927 Althea Gibson, African American tennis player, the first to play at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon.
1930 Sean Connery, Scottish actor famous for playing the character James Bond in the Ian Flemming movie series.
1933 Wayne Shorter, jazz saxaphonist and composer.
1938 Frederick Forsyth, author of thrillers (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File).
1949 Martin Amis, English novelist (Money, Time's Arow).http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

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1886 - In Galveston, the Lone Star State Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association was established.

1909 - The Brownsville and Matamorous Bridge Company incorportated. Later the company built a bridge across the Rio Grande connecting the two cities with 1.24 miles of track.

1917 - At Camp Travis, TX, the Ninetieth Division of the U.S. Army was activated.

1949 - In Austin, the French Legation was placed in the custody of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.

1958 - In Texas, Elvis Presley reported back to Fort Hood.

1970 - In Galveston, Bishop's Palace (also knowna as Gresham House) was added to the National Register of Historic Places.